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The idea is that treatment also has risks and false positives are an issue. If you gave a mammogram to every 20 year old woman, you would end up doing a large
by dabbledash 5y ago
The idea is that treatment also has risks and false positives are an issue.
If you gave a mammogram to every 20 year old woman, you would end up doing a large number of unnecessary biopsies and you’d find almost no real cancer. In the end, you’d lose more people than you would save.
Or that’s the idea. I’m no expert in this but it makes sense to me conceptually.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> If you gave a mammogram to every 20 year old woman, you would end up doing a large number of unnecessary biopsies and you’d find almost no real cancer If you gave a mammogram to every 20-year old, you wouldn't do a biopsy when you got a positive. You'd increase monitoring and maybe suggest lifestyle changes. The same way we don't immediately catherize everyone who comes back with high cholesterol.
- vidarh 5y agoIf you gave a mammogram to every 20-year old, you'd cause a significant increase in cancers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4878445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4878445/